SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
Dr. A. Wetmore, 
Bigelow Hotel, 
Ogden, Utah. 
Dear Dr. Wetmore: 
Mrs. Paul Bartlett called up this morning in con¬ 
nection with the Lafayette statue. She said the exhibition 
in New York is finished and that she will have to make plans 
very soon for removing the statue we loaned her. She is very 
anxious to make a trade with us, giving us the large statue 
and beeping the smaller one to be sent to the Museum in France. 
I asked her whether the subject could not be held in abeyance 
until your return and she said she was afraid it could not be¬ 
cause she had to remove the little statue very soon, although 
she could wait until the end of next week before making a final 
decision. As I remember it you expressed a very definite oppo¬ 
sition to receiving the large statue, and I told her I was in 
doubt as to your plans, since the large statue could only be 
used in the rotunda, and. I did not know what plans you had for 
the future development of the rotunda. She put up a double 
proposition, the first which is an outright exchange for the 
statue, and the second is that in case you wish to keep the 
smaller statue, she would like to make a cast of the man of 
this statue to be sent to France and there placed on a horse 
which she already has available. If you desire to let her 
have the smaller statue, she is willing to return the pedestal 
since she has other plans for mounting the statue in France. 
She can be reached in care of The American Academy of Arts and 
Letters, Broadway and lest 155th Street, and if the matter is 
definitely settled in your mind, you will probably want to in¬ 
form her at that address. 
I got in touch with the National Geographic this 
morning in connection with the contact they had with Mr. Albert 
D. Willard, Jr., who was the subject of ay letter to you yester¬ 
day. Mr. LaGorce talked with him and unfortunately I was unable 
